Patents by Inventor Yohsuke HASHIMOTO
Yohsuke HASHIMOTO has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).
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Publication number: 20240257581Abstract: A control unit of an information processing device acquires a first frequency that is a frequency of forward parking events of a first vehicle per unit period. When the first frequency is equal to or greater than a first threshold, the control unit of the information processing device sends first information on first equipment to a first terminal associated with a user of the first vehicle. The first equipment is equipment that assists in a driving operation for driving out the forward parked first vehicle in reverse and that is mountable on the first vehicle.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 19, 2023Publication date: August 1, 2024Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Yohsuke HASHIMOTO, Satoshi AKIMA
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Publication number: 20240257577Abstract: The control unit of the information processing device acquires a first frequency that is the frequency of lane changes per unit time of the first vehicle. The control unit performs a first driving diagnosis based on the first frequency. When the result of the first driving diagnosis satisfies the first condition, the control unit transmits, to a first terminal, first information about first equipment that is equipment for assisting driving operation related to lane change and is equipment that can be attached to the first vehicle, and the result of a first driving diagnosis.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 11, 2023Publication date: August 1, 2024Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Yohsuke HASHIMOTO, Satoshi AKIMA
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Publication number: 20240217515Abstract: A vehicle control device includes: a processor configured to execute automated acceleration control for automatically controlling acceleration of a vehicle; and one or more sensors configured to detect an operation of a driver related to acceleration/deceleration of the vehicle. The processor is configured to detect, during a specific acceleration period in which a specific condition is satisfied and the vehicle is accelerated by the automated acceleration control, an acceleration change operation of the driver that intervenes to change a set acceleration set by the automated acceleration control. The specific condition indicates that a vehicle-to-vehicle distance or a vehicle-to-vehicle time between the vehicle and a preceding vehicle is equal to or greater than a threshold value or that there is no preceding vehicle. The processor is also configured to change the set acceleration for future acceleration based on a history of the detected acceleration change operation.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 29, 2023Publication date: July 4, 2024Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Masakazu AOKI, Yohsuke Hashimoto, Satoshi Takamoto
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Publication number: 20240208502Abstract: A control device includes a memory device configured to store a first function, and a processor. The first function is specified in advance based on a driving dataset for a plurality of drivers. The processor is configured to: calculate, in accordance with the first function, a vehicle-to-vehicle preference value of a driver according to vehicle-to-vehicle information and subject vehicle speed acquired during follow-up driving in manual driving; calculate, based on the calculated vehicle-to-vehicle preference value, one or more remaining driving preference values for at least one of acceleration, deceleration, deceleration timing, and acceleration timing; and execute, based on the calculated one or more remaining driving preference values, a target value calculation process of calculating one or more control target values for the at least one of the acceleration, the deceleration, the deceleration timing, and the acceleration timing in automated driving with the driver on board.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 23, 2023Publication date: June 27, 2024Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Masakazu AOKI, Satoshi TAKAMOTO, Yohsuke HASHIMOTO
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Publication number: 20240199037Abstract: A control device for a vehicle controls a subject vehicle configured to switch between manual driving by a driver and automated driving. The control device includes a processor and a memory device. The processor is configured to execute learning control that learns vehicle-to-vehicle information being vehicle-to-vehicle time or vehicle-to-vehicle distance of the subject vehicle with respect to a preceding vehicle during traveling with the manual driving, and to reflect a learning result of the vehicle-to-vehicle information by the learning control in a control of the vehicle-to-vehicle information during the automated driving. The memory device is configured to store the vehicle-to-vehicle information as learning data during the manual driving. In the learning control, the processor determines, based on a type of the preceding vehicle, whether or not the vehicle-to-vehicle information for the preceding vehicle is caused to be stored in the memory device as the learning data.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 16, 2023Publication date: June 20, 2024Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Masakazu AOKI, Yohsuke HASHIMOTO, Satoshi TAKAMOTO
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Publication number: 20240199086Abstract: A control device for a vehicle controls a subject vehicle configured to switch between manual driving and automated driving. The control device includes a processor and a memory device. The processor is configured to execute learning control that learns vehicle-to-vehicle distance when the driver stops the subject vehicle during the manual driving, and to reflect a learning result of the vehicle-to-vehicle distance by the learning control in a control of the vehicle-to-vehicle distance during the automated driving. The memory device is configured to store the vehicle-to-vehicle distance as learning data during the manual driving. In the learning control, the processor is configured to determine, based on vehicle operation information by the driver during a series of periods from a pre-stop period to a post-stop period of the subject vehicle, whether or not the vehicle-to-vehicle distance is caused to be stored in the memory device as the learning data.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 16, 2023Publication date: June 20, 2024Applicant: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Masakazu Aoki, Yohsuke Hashimoto, Satoshi Takamoto
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Patent number: 11769406Abstract: An automobile includes a traffic information acquisition device that acquires traveling vehicle information, and traffic information from a traffic information management center that manages traffic obstacle information on an obstacle on a road, a display device that displays surroundings map information of a subject vehicle together with a mark showing a current position of the subject vehicle, and a control device. The control device reflects a decorative image based on surroundings traffic obstacle information in the surroundings map information and displays the decorative image on the display device, and associates, with the decorative image, an involved vehicle number image on an involved vehicle number, and displays the involved vehicle number image on the display device. The involved vehicle number is the number of vehicles in the traveling vehicle information involved in the traffic information related to the decorative image.Type: GrantFiled: August 18, 2022Date of Patent: September 26, 2023Assignee: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Takayuki Hamada, Masakazu Aoki, Yohsuke Hashimoto, Yuki Ogawa
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Patent number: 11691639Abstract: A vehicle control system includes a memory, a first processor mounted in a vehicle, and a second processor different from an in-vehicle device. The first processor and the second processor are configured to execute acquisition processing, operation processing, reward calculation processing, and update processing. The first processor is configured to execute at least the acquisition processing and the operation processing, and the second processor is configured to execute the update processing.Type: GrantFiled: October 6, 2020Date of Patent: July 4, 2023Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Yohsuke Hashimoto, Akihiro Katayama, Yuta Oshiro, Kazuki Sugie, Naoya Oka
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Patent number: 11673556Abstract: A method of generating vehicle control data includes: storing, with a storage device, relationship prescription data; operating, with an execution device, an operable portion of an internal combustion engine; acquiring, with the execution device, a detection value from a sensor that detects the state of the vehicle; calculating, with the execution device, a reward; and updating, with the execution device, the relationship prescription data using update mapping determined in advance, the update mapping using the state of the vehicle based on the detection value, an operation amount used to operate the operable portion, and the reward corresponding to the operation as arguments, and returning the relationship prescription data which have been updated such that an expected profit for the reward calculated when the operable portion is operated in accordance with the relationship prescription data increases.Type: GrantFiled: October 9, 2020Date of Patent: June 13, 2023Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Yohsuke Hashimoto, Akihiro Katayama, Yuta Oshiro, Kazuki Sugie, Naoya Oka
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Patent number: 11654915Abstract: Provided is a method of generating vehicle control data. The method is applied to a vehicle configured to select one of a plurality of traveling control modes and is executed by a processor in a state in which relationship definition data defining a relationship between a state of the vehicle and an action variable as a variable relating to an operation of electronic equipment in the vehicle is stored in a memory. The method includes operation processing for operating the electronic equipment, acquisition processing for acquiring a detection value of a sensor configured to detect the state of the vehicle, reward calculation processing for providing reward, and update processing for updating the relationship definition data.Type: GrantFiled: October 8, 2020Date of Patent: May 23, 2023Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Yohsuke Hashimoto, Akihiro Katayama, Yuta Oshiro, Kazuki Sugie, Naoya Oka
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Patent number: 11643096Abstract: A vehicle learning system includes a first execution device mounted on a vehicle, a second execution device outside the vehicle, and a storage device. The storage device stores mapping data including data, which is learned by machine learning and defines mapping that receives input data based on a detection value of an in-vehicle sensor and outputs an output value. The first execution device and the second execution device execute, in cooperation with each other, an acquisition process of acquiring input data, a calculation process of calculating an output value with the input data as an input of the mapping, and a relationship evaluation process of evaluating a relationship between a predetermined variable different from a variable corresponding to the output value and accuracy of the output value. The first execution device executes at least the acquisition process, and the second execution device executes at least the relationship evaluation process.Type: GrantFiled: August 7, 2020Date of Patent: May 9, 2023Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Yohsuke Hashimoto, Akihiro Katayama, Yuta Oshiro, Kazuki Sugie, Naoya Oka
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Publication number: 20230063897Abstract: A vehicle includes a traffic obstruction information acquisition device configured to acquire traffic obstruction information, a vehicle information acquisition device configured to acquire vehicle information related to a second vehicle located between a position of the vehicle and a location on the traveling route where a traffic obstruction has occurred, a notification device configured to give, to a driver of the vehicle, a notification by a first notification method and a notification by a second notification method, and a control device configured to notify the driver of the traffic obstruction information by the first notification method when a predetermined condition that brings difficulty for the driver in recognition of the traffic obstruction is not satisfied based on the vehicle information, and notify the driver of the traffic obstruction information by the second notification method when the predetermined condition is satisfied based on the vehicle information.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 29, 2022Publication date: March 2, 2023Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Takayuki HAMADA, Yohsuke HASHIMOTO, Yuki OGAWA, Masakazu AOKI
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Publication number: 20230063622Abstract: An automobile includes a traffic information acquisition device that acquires traveling vehicle information, and traffic information from a traffic information management center that manages traffic obstacle information on an obstacle on a road, a display device that displays surroundings map information of a subject vehicle together with a mark showing a current position of the subject vehicle, and a control device. The control device reflects a decorative image based on surroundings traffic obstacle information in the surroundings map information and displays the decorative image on the display device, and associates, with the decorative image, an involved vehicle number image on an involved vehicle number, and displays the involved vehicle number image on the display device. The involved vehicle number is the number of vehicles in the traveling vehicle information involved in the traffic information related to the decorative image.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 18, 2022Publication date: March 2, 2023Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Takayuki HAMADA, Masakazu AOKI, Yohsuke HASHIMOTO, Yuki OGAWA
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Publication number: 20230055862Abstract: A vehicle includes an image capturing device configured to capture an image in a vehicle traveling direction, a display device, and a controller configured to carry out an analysis of the image captured by the image capturing device and display an indicator based on the analysis on the display device. The controller is configured to display a first object that approaches a host vehicle on the display device in a mode different from a mode for a second object that does not approach the host vehicle within the image captured by the image capturing device.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 30, 2022Publication date: February 23, 2023Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Takayuki HAMADA, Yuki OGAWA, Masakazu AOKI, Yohsuke HASHIMOTO
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Patent number: 11530662Abstract: A method of generating vehicle control data is provided. The method is executed using a processor and a storage device and includes: storing first data that prescribe a relationship between a state of a vehicle and an action variable that indicates an action related to an operation of an electronic device; acquiring a detection value from a sensor that detects the state of the vehicle; operating the electronic device; calculating a reward, on the basis of the acquired detection value; in a case where a predetermined condition is met, updating the first data using, as inputs to update mapping determined in advance, the state of the vehicle, a value of the action variable, and the reward; and in a case where the state of the vehicle does not meet the predetermined condition, obtaining second data by adapting the relationship between the state of the vehicle and the action variable.Type: GrantFiled: September 17, 2020Date of Patent: December 20, 2022Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Yohsuke Hashimoto, Akihiro Katayama, Yuta Oshiro, Kazuki Sugie, Naoya Oka
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Patent number: 11453376Abstract: A vehicle control device includes a memory configured to store relationship definition data that defines a relationship between a state of a vehicle and an action variable, which is a variable relating to an operation of electronic equipment in the vehicle, and a processor. The processor is configured to execute acquisition processing of acquiring a detection value of a sensor, operation processing of operating the electronic equipment, reward calculation processing, update processing of updating the relationship definition data, detection processing, and switching processing of switching the relationship definition data to post-treatment data. The processor is configured to, based on the update mapping, output the relationship definition data updated to increase an expected return on the reward when the electronic equipment is operated in compliance with the relationship definition data.Type: GrantFiled: October 13, 2020Date of Patent: September 27, 2022Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Yohsuke Hashimoto, Akihiro Katayama, Yuta Oshiro, Kazuki Sugie, Naoya Oka
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Patent number: 11333097Abstract: An internal combustion engine condition determination apparatus includes a storage device; and an execution device. The storage device stores mapping data that defines a mapping. The execution device is configured to execute an acquisition process of acquiring an internal combustion engine state variable every time a crankshaft of an internal combustion engine rotates by a predetermined angle, and a determination process of determining a condition of the internal combustion engine based on an output obtained through the mapping using the internal combustion engine state variable as an input. The mapping data is trained by machine learning. The execution device is configured to prohibit the determination process when a rotation speed of the crankshaft is equal to or higher than a predetermined threshold.Type: GrantFiled: June 29, 2020Date of Patent: May 17, 2022Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Yohsuke Hashimoto, Akihiro Katayama, Yuta Oshiro, Kazuki Sugie, Naoya Oka
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Patent number: 11326541Abstract: A vehicle control device includes a storage device that stores mapping data including data that defines mapping that receives input data based on a plurality of detection values which are detection values of an in-vehicle sensor and which are before or after in time series and outputs a predetermined output value and that is learned by machine learning and an execution device that executes an acquisition process of acquiring the input data from the storage device, a calculation process of calculating the predetermined output value with the input data as an input of the mapping, and a transmission process of transmitting the detection values used when the input data is generated and time series data including data based on one or a plurality of detection values which are before or after the detection value used for the input data in time series to an outside of the vehicle.Type: GrantFiled: August 7, 2020Date of Patent: May 10, 2022Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Yohsuke Hashimoto, Akihiro Katayama, Yuta Oshiro, Kazuki Sugie, Naoya Oka
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Patent number: 11313309Abstract: A vehicle control device includes a memory configured to store relationship definition data that defines a relationship between a state of a vehicle and an action variable, which is a variable relating to an operation of electronic equipment in the vehicle, and a processor. The processor is configured to execute acquisition processing of acquiring a detection value of a sensor and driving preference information, operation processing of operating the electronic equipment, reward calculation processing of providing a greater reward when a characteristic of the vehicle satisfies a criterion than when the characteristic of the vehicle does not satisfy the criterion, and update processing of updating the relationship definition data. The processor is configured to, based on update mapping, output the relationship definition data updated to increase an expected return on the reward when the electronic equipment is operated in compliance with the relationship definition data.Type: GrantFiled: October 9, 2020Date of Patent: April 26, 2022Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Yohsuke Hashimoto, Akihiro Katayama, Yuta Oshiro, Kazuki Sugie, Naoya Oka
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Patent number: 11248553Abstract: A vehicle control device includes a storage device and a processor. The storage device is configured to store relationship prescription data that prescribe a relationship between a state of a vehicle and an action variable that is a variable related to an operation of an electronic device in the vehicle. The processor is configured to calculate a reward corresponding to the operation of the electronic device. The processor is configured to update the relationship prescription data using, as inputs to updated mapping determined in advance, the state of the vehicle that is based on a detection value that is acquired, a value of the action variable that is used to operate the electronic device, and the reward corresponding to the operation of the electronic device when a computation load on the processor is equal to or less than a predetermined load.Type: GrantFiled: October 5, 2020Date of Patent: February 15, 2022Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Yohsuke Hashimoto, Akihiro Katayama, Yuta Oshiro, Kazuki Sugie, Naoya Oka